Sunday 24 May 2020

Merlins Oak. History in photos

The Story of Merlin's Oak in Photos


Before 1856

Post 1856. Perhaps 1880's.


1936


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1962


1978, on the left my friend William Montgomery


1978. The end.


Present Day, (2020).


3 comments:

  1. President day photograph Holm Oak. Totally the wrong tree.This is an evergreen.

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  2. Thank you for pointing that out. Apparently, the original tree was a Pedunculate Oak, a deciduous tree, whereas the new tree is a Holm Oak, as you point out.

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  3. Funnily enough, you write 'President day', iIm sure this has to do with predictive text, Anyway John Adams, the second president of the USA.has Carmarthen connections. Author Phil Carradice said of their ancestry ( “The earliest reference to his family comes in 1422 when a distant ancestor, John Adams of Pembroke, married the daughter of Penybanc Farm and duly took over the business. David Adams, one of the later sons of Penybanc, was educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School in Carmarthen, took holy orders and in 1675 emigrated to America.”
    His son, John Quincy Adams, was the 6th president, and previously served as the eighth United States Secretary of State from 1817 to 1825. During his long diplomatic and political career,
    Both Carmarthen boys.

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